European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news Lirie the stars and stripes sunday october 4,1967 sessions leaves Hospital will be sworn in thursday Washington Fri directories in Nat William s. Sessions was released from the Hospital saturday saying he Tell Good after treat ment for a bleeding ulcer and would be worn in thursday. After he lakes the oath of office sessions Isnoel expected to Start in his new Job right away because doctors want him to rest before Han slings Normal workload. Sessions told reporters that his doctors gave him a special diet. Sessions was stricken wednesday night aboard an Airliner on the Way from Dallas o Washington and was taken to a Hospital where doctors discovered a previously undiagnosed Small ulcer in the upper portion of the Small intestine. Session took aspirin on an empty stomach be came sick and tainted on the flight from  said the aspirin caused the ulcer flare up american Sfair climber just misses setting record Paris a Sieve Silva a 39-year-old american from Boston failed saturday in his Effort to break the world record for the vertical mile on the Steps of Paris Eiffel Tower. Silva climbed the 1,792 Steps of the 98-year-old Tower in two hours two minutes and 54 seconds. That was i a minutes Short of the two hours one minute and 24 second guinness Book of records Mark set by Dale Neil 22, at the peach tree Plaza hotel in Atlanta on March 9,1984. Silva had prepared for saturday s 1 h trips up and Down the Tower s Steps by climbing an aver age of 40,000 stairs a week. Manila ambush prompts presidential Palace Alert Manila Philippines a troops backed by armoured personnel carriers were rushed to the presidential Palace saturday after unidentified men ambushed a police car nearby military sources and a government official said. At the time of the ambush president Corazon Aquino was giving an interview to local report ers inside the Palace the sources said. Scores of soldiers in Battle gear were seen taking positions on the grounds of the Malac Anang presidential Palace As at least four armoured trucks blocked the compound s Gates. A few Hundred Yards away troops with machine guns Strung bar bed wire barricades across the strategic Mendiola Bridge the main approach to he presidential offices the private radio Dexl reported. A police sergeant was killed and another seriously wounded in the ambush which occurred about two mites Northeast of the presidential Palace said the sources at the National capital regional defense command. Fire forces nuke Plant in Colorado to shut Down Platteville Colo. Up1 a fire Early saturday at the fort St. Vrain nuclear Power Plant forced the facility to shut Down but caused no injuries and resulted in no radiation release company officials said. The Plant located about 35 Miles North of Denver was running at 26 percent reactor Power when the fire broke  spokesman Mark sevens said the lire in the Plant s Turbine building broke out right at Midnight and it Only lasted is  he said the fire occurred when a Hydraulic Relief valve blew and spewed Hydraulic  Iran mine data Swap reported from Page 1 the first Days of a . Escort program. The . Navy radioed to soviet ships in the area the location of mines planted by Iran and warned of the dangers administration officials said. Since then there have definitely been communications Between ships a . Intelligence source said adding thai both countries exchanged Dala about new mines found off the coast of Dubai two weeks ago. A state department source attributed the soviets action to their desire o pursue balance of policy objectives in the  first they want Good relations Wilh Iran the source said. But they Don t want to alienate the arabs and they want to look statesmanlike and High minded at the  but another administration analyst said that the so Viets arc cooperating in order to reduce tensions that have resulted in what they regard As an alarming . Military buildup on their Southern flank. The soviets want our military presence reduced or eliminated and the Best Way to to do that is to help Cool the crisis he said. However stale department officials in the past have openly said that they would oppose any .-so Viet cooperation in the Gulf for fear it might encourage an increased soviet presence. State department spokesman Charles Redman said recently of the possibility of .-soviet cooperation in mine sweeping i usually Don t Rule anything out but in this Case i la make an  the cooperation to Date however has involved Only soviet vessels already in the Region the sources said. Asked Friday about the superpowers intelligence sharing a state department spokesman declined com ment a spokesman for the soviet embassy in Washington did not return Telephone Calls. Up1 Learned of the soviet assistance from nato sources who said that soviet Navy officials had in formed them of the exchanges during functions at the United nations in new York. The bulk of the soviet Union s information is com ing from its embassy in Kuwait the largest intelligence listening Post in the area . Intelligence sources said. The data is processed from soviet ships based in Ethiopia and South Yeman that Drift in and out of the Gulf an administration official said. Another . Official said that additional soviet data is coming from soviet intelligence collection trawlers docked at iranian ports such As Bandar Abbas. One congressional staffer said Pentagon 9fhcials had told Congress thursday there was no interaction Between the navies. Other sources said that Brief Ings by military officials to Congress have been in even with some committees being Given information earlier than others. Thorn Mcnaugher a Brooking institution naval specialist said that he believed the cooperation rep resented the highest Standard of the brotherhood that exists Between naval services. The sea is a world All its own Hazard to one is a Hazard to All Mcnaugher said. His View was substantiated by nato sources one of whom said that it s Odd but men who Are paid to kill each other actually find they work together very Well when there s a common crisis one intelligence source said that the soviet Union was getting the belter of the Exchange because data being supplied to the soviet by the . Navy also contains input from the French and British fleets in the area. If we give the soviets All we be got they stand to gel More than if they give to All they be got he said. But he said we have a Community of interest in identifying  Alert from Page 1 caused the saudis to go to a higher state of military Alert. They said the . Rale was to demonstrate support for saudi Arabia and to protect american interests in the Gulf by marshalling its warships in the area. The state of Alert aboard the la Salic did not change but the ship was conducting training drills saturday that included a practice general quarters or Battle stations Alert for the approximately 500 men aboard. Rear . Harold j. Bessert commander of the11-ship Middle East Force that carries out the . Escort operations and other duties in the Gulf left Thela Salle by helicopter at mid morning. The naval offi Cial said they could provide no information Ailo his destination. The area where the la Salle and Nifte Guadalcanal were located was outside the usual rep craving areas of the Middle East Force while escorting convoys of re flagged kuwaiti tankers up and Down the Gulf. This change in Mission Wai directed by National authority. We Are out Here monitoring activity in the area and i know of no particular imminent threat to the ship copt. Harry t. Rittenour of Pike Lon Ohio the la Sally s commanding officer told his Crew by intercom at 8 20 . Emergency from Page 1 of the areas hardest hit by the quake which measured 6.1 on the Richter scale and was followed by numerous aftershocks. Dozens of Small aftershocks registering below 3.0 on the Richter scale Shook the Region Friday said Robert finn a spokesman for the California Institute of technology. But scientists said the Chance of a major aftershock was diminishing As time passed. Many latin american immigrants All too Well acquainted with earthquakes in Mexico Al Salvador Nicaragua and Guatemala slept in Perks for fear of aftershocks and some said they would nol return Home even saturday. We be had the experience of people dying in houses said Ramon Escott a building manager. The initial quake which hit at 7 42 ., struck suburban Whittier hardest smashing 30 downtown buildings and damaging 800 Homes. What really is so disturbing is to set the displace ment of individuals the elderly people who had to removed out of rest Homes and the like and individual families and of course the deaths that Nave occurred Deukro Dejian said in Whittier killed were the following a College student crushed by a collapsing Wall a Man pitched from a second floor window a construction worker buried in a Mountain Tunnel under construction and at least three people whose heart attacks were attributed to the quake. The quake was the worst in California since the Sylmar quake in 1971, which killed 64 people and registered 6.4 on the Richter scale a measure of ground motion As re corded on Seismograph. Every increase of one number Means a tenfold increase in magnitude. Some 27,000 people were without Telephone service saturday in South Central lot angers and nearby Rose Mead and 12,500 were without natural Gas officials said. Operators of businesses were told it was not yet Safe to make repairs. Whittier police escorted merchants to their shops Friday to recover business records or valuables then patrolled to prevent looting overnight. Bush from Page 1 while there was concern that we the United slates were going it  a Reagan administration proposal that would see agricultural subsidies phased out in nato countries Over the next dozen years Drew lukewarm response Bush said. I can t Lake to Iowa or anywhere else a report that we be solved the problems with agriculture. But i think i be had the Opportunity to explain to various euro Pean Leaden the . Position which is that we oppose  while the United Stales itself ii not pure when in comes to Price supports for farm products. Bush said we Are going to continue to work to expand markets and to do More in the area of alternate fuels so some of these com sur pluses can be used up in an efficient  Bush who is expected to announce his candidacy for the presidency next week said he would nol shy away from Dis agreeing with the White House on mat ters where candidate Bush Doe not see Eye to Eye with president Reagan. However the vice president said he would continue to defend what we As an administration have  asked whether he would if elected support continuing sanctions against South Africa Bush said he believe the sanctions have failed. The vice president said he had no dear easy answer for ending White control of the predominately Black country. I think we can make Clear our abhor rence Wilh racism with apartheid but i Don t think we should be pushing for things that Hurt the people we re trying to help Bush said